Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-09-14
STATE. COAST AND ELsEwHERE.

Duellipg among women is becoming
fashionable in France.
All the orderles In Alsace.L Lorraine
now use bycicles or tricyoles.
The Caledonia corn ring at Liver.
pool, England, has collapsed.
The electric light is now being used
in the Scotch fisheries with success.
The German Government is receiv.
ing petitions asking for a raising of
the corn duties.
The Japanese have lately been ex,
amining the German breweries with
view to native production.
A Perisan doctor. has seen the Pope
lately, and says that he is certainly
good for ten years more.
Of the eight sub Commissioners ap-
pointed in Dublin under the new Land
Act, four of them are Presbyterians.
A new Republic called the Republic
of Counani, between Brazh and French
Guiana, has recently been declared.
The fashionable Swiss hotels now
have American bars, presided over
by handsome Swiss girls in native
dress.
The Pope has received home and
foreign contributions amounting to
$4,000 toward defraying the expenses
of his jubilee.
The Pilgrims from India to Mecca
will henceforh make the pilgrimage
to the sacred shrine on Cooks excur.
sion tickets.
Five thousand Protestants recently
celebrated the edict of federation of
Louis X v I on a peak of the Ceven.
mes Mountains,
A check for 91. 10000 was paid to
The Bridgewater navigation Company
lately, for its work on the Manches.
ter Ship Canal.
The decrease of Ireland's popula-
tion since 1880. is 200. 900; the increase
of police expenses, has been e250, 600
That tells the story of Tory failure.
A conspiracy against the Government
has been discovered at Ponce, Porto
Rico, Forty persons have been ar
rested including the President OF the
Autonomisl Club.
The civil authorities of Toulouse,
France, have been instructed to assis.
the military authorities by providing
supplies and placing ali available large
buildings at the disposal of the troops.
Stock in London gas companies is a
nice thing th hold. One company has
just declared semi-annual dividend
of 124 per cent, and had left to carry
forward surplus surplus enough for
TOUR per cent more.
A man named Garter is said to have
found cross of two varities of wheat
WHICH will make British wheat so
much more productive that it will
give the Brltishers the supremacy in
the business.
In French country houses the FASH
ionable sport is frog.spearing. The
weapon used resembles cross bow,
and the barhed arrows are attached to
the bows by silken string, so as to
haul the frog in when he is pierced.
NJ, Depretis died poor, although for
many years he enjoyed the opportu-
nitief of enriching himself. King
Humbert has setteled e400 year on
Nine. Depretis, and is to undertake
the charge of the education of her son,
and win Otherwise provide for him.
There are just at present half
dozen especially scandalous cases of
"inehriatism" among high houses
ABROAD, especially in France. Prince
Earnest De .Rohap, who belongs to
one of the Oldest and most noble fam
lilies IN Europe, has been placed in an
insane asylum at Pesth, suffering from
delirium tremens that may cost him
his life.
A transfer company's wagon was
unloading at the bay at Santa Cruz on
Monday when the team backed of
into 9he water and was drowned, The
dead horses were towed to shore by
fishermen. Another team brought to
haul away the dead animals took
fright, broke The rope and dashed
madly into a crowd on the beach and
knocked down and seriously injured
Miss Madden. A little daughter OF
John Woods riding on horseback, wit